On a sunny early September afternoon, longtime San Luis resident Donna Madrid Hernandez sat at a shaded picnic table in the town park. She threaded about a foot of blue wool fiber onto an embroidery ...

First there was flower pressing, then there were decorative branches and ikebana arrangements. How about botanical embroidery as the next phase of floral design? When we spotted Olga Prinku's ...

The stereotypical image of obedient housewives doing needlework is rooted in the reality of many historical women. Embroidery became almost synonymous with a domestic and delicate depiction of ...

Kashida embroidery is a centuries-old craft rooted in the Indian subcontinent. It is known for its intricate motifs of nature, symbolizing the cycles of seasons and prosperity. Artisans, mainly women, ...

Traditional embroidery (chasu) in Korea has a history of more than 2,000 years. Since prehistoric times, the need for sewing led ancient Koreans to use needles made from fish or other animal bones to ...

We speak to a tatreez artisan from a refugee camp and her effort to protect this heritage Historically, tatreez sessions have been a place for bonding... when women would engage in open dialogues, ...

Embroidery can turn a run-of-the-mill shirt or other item of clothing into a unique piece. Whether it is being added as a non-representative decoration or as a logo or other element requested by a ...

In this article, I am going to talk about the PES file. What is a PES file and how you can view these files on Windows 11/10? A file with .pes extension is most probably an embroidery file that stores ...

On 1 January 2020, Sophie O'Neill stitched an "icon" of a fountain from the hotel she worked in on to a piece of fabric. When she arrived for an early morning shift, the fountain was still filled with ...